Putin: Russia helps China build missile warning system

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the Valdai Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort of in Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Speaking at an international affairs conference Thursday in the southern Russian city of Sochi, Putin said Stalin's purges marked a "dark page" in Russia's history. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is helping China build a system to warn of ballistic missile launches.

Since the Cold War times, only the United States and Russia have had such systems, which involve an array of ground-based radars and space satellites. The systems allow for early spotting of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Speaking at Thursday’s international affairs conference, Putin said Russia has been helping China develop such a system. He added that “this is a very serious thing that will radically enhance China’s defence capability.”

His statement signalled a new degree of defenceco-operation between the two former Communist rivals that have developed increasingly close political and military ties.

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